ARCHITECTURE
Weave every campus into its ecosystem.
The master plan starts from the land: relief, soils, water, sun, winds, landscape and wildlife. Then come power, cooling, network and security, all the way to the rack.
THE SITE
One campus, one ecosystem.
Nordik does more than set down data centres: every campus is woven into its land and its ecosystem, from the soil to the night sky, and is run in step with them.
SERVICES
What we design
Master plan and phasing
Read the land before drawing: relief, soils, drainage, sun and winds. Lay the campus out with them, keep room to grow, phase it with demand.
Landscape and biodiversity
A landscape plan of local species, corridors for wildlife and lighting that keeps the night dark, followed from design to operation.
Electrical architecture
From the grid connection to the rack: substations, distribution, UPS, backup and redundancy levels, engineered with Watts Unlimited.
Cooling architecture
Air, direct-to-chip liquid or hybrid, in a closed loop: heat is rejected to the air, with zero water consumption.
White space and network
Layout of high-density racks, aisles and cable routes, and a low-latency network for GPU clusters.
Security and compliance
Access control, fire protection, segregation and the requirements of the targeted standards, built in from the first drawings.
PRINCIPLES
Our design principles
Rooted
A campus that works with its land, its landscape and its wildlife.
Modular
Repeatable blocks that are added without interrupting operations.
Redundant
No single point of failure on the critical paths.
Frugal
Zero water consumption, power generated on site, measured efficiency.
Ready for what comes next
Ready for tomorrow’s densities: power per rack keeps rising.
DELIVERABLES
What you receive
- Campus master plan
- Landscape and biodiversity plan
- Single-line diagrams
- Heat load studies
- White space layouts
- Technical specifications
IN PLAIN TERMS
Frequently asked questions
Where does the design of an AI campus begin?
With the land. Before the first drawing, we read the relief, the soils, the drainage, the sun and the prevailing winds. The master plan then places the buildings, the power and the room for expansion according to the site, not to a ready-made template.
Why design a campus in modular blocks?
Because demand for compute arrives in stages. Repeatable blocks are added without interrupting operations: investment follows demand, and each new phase benefits from the experience of the previous ones.
How do you cool very dense racks in a hot climate?
With liquid brought right to the processors (direct-to-chip), with air, or with both, always in a closed loop. Heat is released into the air by dry coolers sized for the site’s temperatures, with zero water consumption.
What place does the environment hold in the master plan?
It is part of it from the start: a landscape of local, water-wise species, passages for wildlife, lighting that preserves the night and minimal earthworks. These choices are followed from design through to operations.